Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Politician v. Patriot v. Priest...
...change to a European form of government." Apparently the man who called Prohibition a "noble experiment" (literally "an experiment noble in motive") and who harped for four years on "rugged individualism" was already itching to get into a momentous fight, the form of which even Franklin Roosevelt, smart politician though he was. did not yet clearly perceive. It remained for Pundit Walter Lippmann. once a good friend of Herbert Hoover, to take most of the wind out of that Republican's sails with these caustic words...
...President-Editor John Sanford ("Jack") Cohen (TIME, May 27), the brisk, breezy Atlanta Journal ("Covers Dixie Like the Dew"-with 86,600 circulation) was formally taken in charge by the family which has really owned it for the last 40 years-the House of Gray. The late lawyer-politician James Richard ("Jim") Gray, who married Mary Inman of the rich, aristocratic Inman clan, acquired the Journal in 1896 from Hoke Smith, twice Governor of Georgia, twice U. S. Senator, Secretary of the Interior under Cleveland. When President Gray died in 1917 John Cohen, a Journal newshawk since...
...with Publisher Howell's job as national committeeman. The election of Howell-backed Talmadge to the governorship forced the Journal into a political back seat, widened the No Man's Land between the publishers. So savagely did the Journal attack Governor Talmadge last summer that that "cracker" politician angrily referred to Editor Cohen as "Jake the Jew,"* urged his supporters to cancel their Journal subscriptions, switch to the Constitution. Crowning outrage to the Grays last week was Governor Talmadge's rude seizure of the Democratic National Committeemanship left vacant by Editor Cohen's death...
Pareto was born in Paris in 1848 of a long line of Italian republicans and conspirators, worked as a railway and mining engineer for 20 years before becoming an unsuccessful politician and a successful professor. He had built up a reputation as an economist, married unhappily, accumulated a tremendous fund of information on history, literature, the natural sciences, before he was offered the chair of political economy at Lausanne in 1894. The untrained U. S. reader who opens The Mind and Society finds himself in a thicket of abstract statements and scholarly quotations, quickly discovers that Pareto's first...